La diversité des aires marines protégées masque un modèle générique : est-il soluble dans des réalités diversifiées ?

The comparative analysis of thirteen marine protected areas (MPA) on five continents makes it possible to show the existence of a generic model, largely accepted without question, and to identify its components. These include the actors involved in granting MPA status, factors legitimizing the decision, and the temporalities and vectors of the decision. In terms of actions, these components include the relationship to space, to nature, and to exchange, as well as the format of the activities conducted. This model generates conflict and issues of acceptance: responding to them means taking up the challenges of local adaptation and global reinvention. Various adaptation processes have been identified. Revisiting this model means questioning its determinants, which include colonialities and forms of green and blue colonialism.